Photos galore from this weekend

We hope you all had a good 4th of July weekend; we did. For my birthday present, Jonathon painted my master bedroom and bathroom all weekend, and as soon as we have everything back in order, I will take pictures. We went to a parade on Friday and Jonathon was in charge of pictures since I sat on the curb with Olivia. He managed to get a picture of everything else but Olivia. She did wonderfully. The kids threw out all kinds of candy and she loved picking them up. She was very friendly and gave a sucker to a little boy who was sitting in his stroller sucking on his sucker. He was so pleased with Olivia's gesture, he gave her his half-eaten sucker as a token of his gratitude, and she accepted it graciously; too cute! Of course, we immediately took it out of her hands and gave it back to the little boy, but we all got a little chuckle. We went and watched fireworks and I was a little worried about how she would react to them, but she loved them. After every one would explode, she would wave her arm and say bye to each one.
I had plans to take Olivia swimming over the weekend to get her out of the house while Jonathon was painting and to do something fun outside, because everyone knows, it is too hot to play outside in Texas if you are not playing in water, but she got Swimmer's Ear Tuesday night so we couldn't go. I was bummed, but relieved at the same time.
We pretty much just hung around the house the rest of the weekend and it was nice.
I found out today that my doctor had to reschedule my 20 week checkup and Sonogram since he will be out of town the day I scheduled mine. So, instead of finding out the sex of the baby on the 24th, it is now the 21st...no complaints here.
The pictures are from Thursday night's gym class. She has such a blast and enjoys every second she is there. She is really starting to break out of her shell and growing up, sniff...sniff. Beforehand, she had a shake from Sonic. Boy, does that girl love her Sonic milkshakes; she loves anything sweet, chocolate or ice cream related. I also threw in a picture of her playing with her American flag scarf before the fireworks.

16 Week Belly Shots

So, today we are officially 16 weeks pregnant. We were really horrible with Olivia and only took a few belly photos, but I was supposed to have maternity photos professionally taken at 36 weeks, but as most of you know, I never made it. So, we decided with this pregnancy, we are going to do the belly shots. Even though we do not have that many belly shots with Olivia, she does have a lot of Ultrasound Photos, so that should make up for the lack of photos, right?

And, without further ado, here are the belly shots:





On a side note, Olivia and I attended a free gymnastics class at The Little Gym today and she had such a blast, I signed her up. Jonathon is going to go with us every Thursday morning, so he can be the one to help assist her and I can take the photos. Today, he was unable to do so because he was extremely busy at work, but he will be there next week. As many of you know, Olivia is rather shy and takes a while to warm up to people and to activities, but today, she was the ring leader. When the instructor would show us a move she wanted us to help the kids with, she used Olivia as her example and she loved it. The great thing about The Little Gym is that even though we are signed up for the 10 a.m. Thursday Beast Class, we can really go any time, and all of the scheduled Beast classes work within my work schedule...awesome! So, next Thursday Jonathon will be with us and I will be able to take some pictures, so look for those next week.

PS--I know my belly is really white compared to the rest of my body and after seeing these photos, I will be correcting that soon :)